The 2005-2006 Archon yearbook will be late due to complications in obtaining graduates' addresses, Rebecca Gedalius '06, the yearbook's former editor-in-chief, said. After completing production on the book July 21, an "early" finishing time for Archon (the 2004-2005 edition arrived in March of this year), Gedalius said she planned for graduates to receive yearbooks by early October. However, she said that's an impossible deadline now because of a federal act allowing students to keep their contact information private.

If students opt to keep their phone number, mailing address and e-mail address private under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the University is prohibited from sharing that information.

Gedalius said obtaining the private addresses of graduates to send them yearbooks is a challenge.

The Office of the University Registrar can release the addresses, but only to Director of Student Activities Stephanie Grimes, the Archon advisor, Gedalius said.

But Grimes said she doesn't know if she'll even receive the FERPA protected addresses from the registrar.

"We don't know that at this point," Grimes said.

University Registrar Mark Hewitt did not return a call and an e-mail Monday afternoon.

Gedalius said she is frustrated because she has been waiting for Grimes to get the addresses since she finished the book over the summer.

"This is a time-sensitive manner, and she's well aware of that," Gedalius said.

Grimes said Friday she had not yet connected with the registrar's office, but had been working on getting the addresses for "a while."

Although she's unsure when she'll get a hold of the addresses, Grimes said she expects the yearbook to be out by the end of October. Gedalius said it takes six weeks once they get the addresses for yearbooks to be mailed out by the Jostens Publishing Company.

Gedalius said it is taking longer than usual to get addresses because instead of asking seniors for their addresses during finals week as was done in the past, she decided to wait until after graduation to e-mail graduates.

Many seniors didn't know before graduation where they would be living next year, Gedalius said.

But Gedalius said it should not be this difficult. "I just don't understand why it's taken this long to begin with."

The Archon received tremendous criticism for being late last year, Gedalius said, and she purposely tried to avoid that by finishing early.

"I didn't want to have to deal with the criticisms again or have next year's editor deal with the criticism because I think it's not fair," Gedalius said.

Though the Archon faced numerous challenges this past year, including staff members and the photos editor quitting early on in the year, Gedalius said they overcame these setbacks.

"All other issues were solved. The only thing that holds up the book is this," she said.